80 months and counting ... | Andrew Simms

In the odd ecosystem of politics, Obama's healthcare victory has direct implications for the viability of action on climate change

At the turn of the 1900s in the US there was a progressive campaign to establish a shorter, eight-hour working day. It was opposed by the National Association of Manufacturers (Nam) as potentially ruinous to the economy – on much the same grounds that the abolition of slavery, the introduction of the maximum load line in shipping and most other progressive reforms ...